AI/ML Education at QMML

Hands-on, inclusive learning through workshops, tutorials, and practical ML sessions

13 Mar

Lesson 12: LSTMs and Stock Prediction Demo

Thursday, 13 March 2025
5–6 PM
David Sizer LT, Bancroft Building

A demo on how LSTMs are used in stock forecasting. Understand vanishing gradients and architecture tweaks.

6 Mar

Lesson 11: RNNs & LSTMs in PyTorch

Thursday, 6 March 2025
5–6 PM
David Sizer LT, Bancroft Building

Introduction to RNNs and LSTMs with a focus on NLP and time-series using PyTorch.

27 Feb

Lesson 10: Markov Decision Processes in RL

Thursday, 27 February 2025
5–6 PM
David Sizer LT, Bancroft Building

Understanding MDPs, Bellman equations, policy iteration, and exploration strategies in RL.

20 Feb

Lesson 9: RL to Beat the Market

Thursday, 20 February 2025
5–6 PM
David Sizer LT, Bancroft Building

Explore reinforcement learning through the K-armed bandit problem and its application to trading strategies.

13 Feb

Lesson 8: Implementing Large Language Models

Thursday, 13 February 2025
5–6 PM
David Sizer LT, Bancroft Building

Hands-on session covering LLMs, prompting, fine-tuning, deployment using OpenAI/Hugging Face APIs.

6 Feb

Lesson 7: Intro to Convolutional Neural Networks

Thursday, 6 February 2025
5–6 PM
David Sizer LT, Bancroft Building

Introduction to CNNs, including architecture (LeNet to ResNet), real-world applications, and training strategies.

6 Dec

Lesson 6: Classification

Friday, 6 December 2024
5–6 PM
Francis Bancroft Building 1.02.6

An overview of classification algorithms, evaluation metrics, and hands-on experience in building classifiers.

22 Nov

Lesson 5: Neural Networks II

Friday, 22 November 2024
5–6 PM
Francis Bancroft Building 1.02.6

Delves deeper into forward pass, loss functions, backpropagation, and an interactive workshop.

15 Nov

Lesson 4: Neural Networks

Friday, 15 November 2024
5–6 PM
Francis Bancroft Building 1.02.6

Introduction to neural networks, their architecture, activation functions, and a hands-on NumPy session.

8 Nov

Lesson 3: Multiple Linear Regression

Friday, 8 November 2024
5–6 PM
Francis Bancroft Building 1.02.6

Explores feature scaling, model evaluation with MSC and R², and an intro to overfitting/underfitting.

1 Nov

Lesson 2: Simple Linear Regression

Friday, 1 November 2024
6–7 PM
Francis Bancroft Building 1.02.6

Covers supervised learning, simple linear regression, and introduces the use of derivatives in practice.

25 Oct

Lesson 1: Introduction to Machine Learning

Friday, 25 October 2024
5–6 PM
Francis Bancroft Building 1.02.6

An introduction to Machine Learning, its real-world applications, Python basics, and fundamental mathematical concepts.